distributions which embed channel information

Pascal Bleser pascal.bleser at skynet.be
Tue Dec 12 14:40:01 PST 2006


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Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:00:42 +0100 Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser at skynet.be> wrote:
>>> Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
>>>> ~# smart --help
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>   File "/usr/bin/smart", line 27, in ?
>>>>     from smart import init, initDistro, initPlugins, initPsyco
>>>> ImportError: No module named smart
>>>> ~#
>> Well, just to make sure: remove all smart* and smart-beta* packages
>> and reinstall smart-0.49.1 (your config, channels, etc... will be kept
>> unless you rm -rf /var/lib/smart/*)
>>
>> Worked fine for me and a few other people who tested it so... YMMV and
>> s..t happens ;)
> 
> [When (using 'smart') I tried reinstalling an 0.49 version of the
>  x86_64 package, it told me it had to ALSO install the i586 package
>  as well.  That's why I ended up installing only smart 0.41-28.]
> 
> 
> The reason I'm posting here is to point out a complication resulting
> from "embedding" the channel information in the distribution package.
> Installing a SUSE-specific smart package will __override__ exisiting
> /etc/smart/channels content.
> 
> Unfortunately, since I had to install a deprecated package, it
> altered the channel information to the way it was when that package
> was built, *not* to the way the repositories are found Dec 2006.

I did that on purpose, embedding my smart-only repository in
/etc/smart/channels/ and giving it a higher priority, in order to avoid
version flapping with cthiel's smart RPM.

cheers
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